28 Nov, 2020 Court Holds Lanham Act Defendant Liable for Manipulated Product Reviews By Terri Seligman The US district court in Utah recently issued interesting Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in a Lanham Act case addressing, among...
20 Nov, 2020 The Winner of the Console Wars is…Light Beer? By Frances Jensen Bud Light has entered the chat. Anheuser-Busch’s popular brand of light beer, Bud Light, announced its own video game console named the...
11 Nov, 2020 Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law By Jeremy Goldman Freedom of Speech Gets a Big Boost With New York’s Passage of Widely Expanded Anti-SLAPP Law Media companies and publishers may finally...
10 Nov, 2020 High Scores and High Stakes: How a Defamation Suit Emerged from Donkey Kong By Jennifer Batista In April 2018, Twin Galaxies, an organization whose video game leaderboard records have been historically recognized as official records...
06 Nov, 2020 Capote Charity Claims Copyright By Matthew Samet The Trustee for the Truman Capote Literary Trust, established as a charitable trust under the will of prolific author Truman Capote, sued...
05 Nov, 2020 Anita White Strikes Back With Second Trademark Suit By Matthew Samet In July 2020, after country music group Lady Antebellum changed its moniker to “Lady A”, Lady Antebellum filed a trademark lawsuit in the...
03 Nov, 2020 TTAB Refuses Registration of .SUCKS By Kimberly Maynard In a precedential decision, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board refused to register .SUCKS, holding that the generic top-level domain...
02 Nov, 2020 Federal Circuit Clarifies Standing For Trademark Cancellation Proceedings By Kimberly Maynard In Corcamore LLC v. SFM LLC, the Federal Circuit clarified the standard for bringing a cancellation proceeding under 15 U.S.C. § 1064...